ASUS G51 - Looking for Blu-ray drive to replace DVD drive.

I want to replace my DVD drive with a Blue ray/dvd combo drive in my Asus G51 laptop but don't know which one to get. Anyone done this and can help?

Thanks,
Tom

 

bet gentech could help, PM GentechPC and see if he can list the model of bluray they use/used for the G51j/G51VX-A1

 

The G51 series laptops uses a 12.7mm SATA optical drive. Any bluray drives with this interface will work, however, you'll most likely have to replace the faceplate from your current drive to the bluray.

 

Thanks for the replies so far.

EIement, this forum doesn't allow me to send any PM's that I could find. Maybe that feature not enabled yet cuz I'm a new member.

David, are you sure it's SATA and not IDE? I haven't pulled it out yet but I got this from the System Info page:

Drive E:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type UNKNOWN
Name HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50N
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate -1.00 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID 1
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-T50N________________RR07____\4&2FB05A86&0&0.1.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000, 78.00 KB (79,872 bytes), 1/20/2008 9:46 PM)


Also who makes a good reliable drive that has drivers that work?

 

Anyone else?

 

just installed a "HL CT10N SATA Blu-ray drive" in my g51. works like a charm, win7 recognized it and installed drivers. using it with Corel WinDVD excellent picture.

Got the drive from ebay for 94USD (64.99 drive + 29.99 shipping), and WinDVD has a 30 day trial. the drive/faceplate/bracket transfer was straight forward and theres only 2 screws.
i can show you pics if needed send me a pm.

 

Thanks for the heads up, just ordered one based on your post.... have been wanting one, but wasn't sure which one to get. Glad to hear this one works well.

 

Will buy 1 if it's a writer got no use to read only.
Can just download in 1080p quality too if I want to watch movies.